By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus Published: February 26th, 2014
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/brandeis-senior-makes-5k-challenge-to-apartheid-week-promoters/2014/02/26/
From the JEWISH PRESS.COM comes this great article about Joshua Nass. If you're a heavy consumer of Twitter News like I am then you are familiar with this story about Joshua, the senior at Brandeis who has his own non-profit, Voices of Conservative Youth. He's done well with this and appeared awhile ago on Fox Business where he was talking about the ASA Boycott,
"Nass was on air speaking about the decision of the American Studies Association to boycott Israeli academic institutions, and the response by (at that time, it’s now well more than doubled) more than 90 university presidents, who rejected the ASA’s boycott. Varney was incredulous that the boycott of Israel proponents had gotten a toehold onto the American college campuses. Nass explained that this effort was rooted in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, which had met with some success in Europe. “The BDS movement is rooted in intellectual dishonesty. They try portraying the Israelis as occupiers, there is no such thing as Israeli occupiers, there is no such thing as occupied territories, there is no such thing, in my opinion, as disputed territories,” Nass explained. Varney says, “Five thousand American academics voted to boycott Israel? It is absolutely incomprehensible, that the only democracy of any sort in the Middle East, the only one, and they are going to boycott it?” and Nass responds, nodding, “it is astounding.” The clip goes on a bit, with Nass ultimately ending the segment by calling on the universities to fire every academic who voted in favor of the boycott."
He assumed that segment was over until this past Sunday someone tweeted him and asked why he was "working for the other side"? Someone, still unknown, had edited him in to some promotional material for so-called Apartheid Week, using footage from that Fox Business Interview.
Since then Nass has tweeted about asking to have him removed from the lying clip which makes him look as if he's a supporter along with Roger Waters, Fareed Zakaria, and Steven Hawkings. No one accepts responsibility.
So today he has offered a challenge:
I will donate $5000 of my personal money to a mutually agreed upon charity, if whomever edited me into the Apartheid Week promotional trailer does the following: 1. Reveals him or herself; 2. Removes my images from the trailer; 3. Issues a public letter of apology for using my likeness without my consent, and in a manner intended to misrepresent my actual beliefs; and 4. Agrees to debate me on the merits of the “Israel as Apartheid State” in a public forum of my choosing. So there is the challenge issued by a college senior to people who created a promotional video for the upcoming “Israel Apartheid Week” on American campuses. And for students or faculty who read this and who are on campuses where “Israeli Apartheid Week” events take place, remind them of the challenge. See if the people behind the anti-Israel hatefests have the courage of their convictions. If they don’t, ask them why not.
Read more at: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/brandeis-senior-makes-5k-challenge-to-apartheid-week-promoters/2014/02/26/2/
Read it and see it all here
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